Tannochsidebear

Rangers 2 Aberdeen 1

fgs Cantwell

If we win the title - then yes

If we dont win the league title - then no

It really is that simple.

I’m really worried about this game tomorrow. A Dolly team with some new found confidence after getting rid of another failed yahoo, and then bringing in a hugely experienced manager pretty famous for turning round underperforming teams, alongside Don Robertson being his usual one-sided consistent cheat against us, I’ve got the fear!

I will gladly bite your hand off for an ugly single goal victory. A huge test for PC and the players. We must match the fight our opponent will show first and foremost, then hope our better players can win us the game, if allowed.

Cantwell, with McCausland and Silva not far behind. Hope Todd has as influential a game on Tuesday.

Good performance, good result. The bookies now have us as joint favourites for the title. 
 

Only concern is we are not ruthless enough and goal difference may be an issue so we have to push on for the whole game every time to get those extra goals. 
 

Absolutely huge game now on Tuesday against Dolly who will come and run , kick, snarl all night and we simply cannot afford to drop any more points against them. I’d love an emphatic victory but I’ll take any win. 

Like most I would have liked a goalscoring striker to be brought in, I really believe that would have secured the title. While Dessers has had a good game or two recently, he is still for me miles off the standard we need and his misses are truly awful. He needs to be replaced but it wont be this season clearly. From what little we have seen of Silva so far, he again looks like one who prefers to pass or take another touch when a shooting chance presents itself, so will not be prolific enough or greedy enough to get the goals to jsutify his price tag. Hope im wrong on both as we have a treble within our grasp if we can take enough of the chances we create. As for the two late additions, as usual I know absolutely nothing about them and i couldnt pick them out of a line up, but I hope to see them both over the next 4 home games in 2 weeks and be impressed. Certainly better than what they are replacing is the minimum (very low) expectation.

The comforting bigger picture is that our opponent didnt strengthen either, so at least we havent lost ground in that sense. It's all to play for. If we hadnt been cheated by referees (lets call it what it was) in the 2 OF games to date we would have a healthy lead, so we must keep beating more of the other 10 than they do and that will take us close. 

The biggest question is just what the hell does PC do with the Euro squad? With only 3 changes allowed and at least 5 required, he is really up against it and has huge decisions to make and will be leaving out 2 important players no matter what. The Beale legacy continues to harm us. At least he will have a couple of weeks (I think?) before he has to nail his squad so he can see how the 2 newbies settle in and if they look like they are going to take time to settle then they may get Thursdays off. We must surely bring in Balogun and Ridvan as one is our best centre half and the other is the only cover for Borna who seems to be picking up more injuries as time goes on. You would think Silva is certain to be added to the squad. Remove Sima, Davies, Lammers, Roofe, Cifuentes or any of the injured or likely to be injured again anytime soon long list.   

I thought this was an easy one, big Souttar was immense, don’t think he lost a duel all day and the block near the end saved 2 points. He was everything that Goldson was not. 
Yilmaz contributed well but still defended poorly at times,  Butland had yet another good game,  Lundstrum was pick of midfield and Dessers probably had his best game for us.

Despite it being a terrible game, I felt we had a few good individual performances.

St Mirren 0 Rangers 3

fgs Silva

hibs 1 rangers 2

fgs Tav

12 minutes ago, Bill said:

I think he's a fantasist and an imposter

I think that sums it up perfectly.

Dumbarton 0 Rangers 4

fgs Dessers

Glad the game is on, looking forward to it. Hopefully we come out the traps all guns blazing after the winter break. We have had a few seasons ruined by the winter break in the last few years, cannot afford to slip up this time with so much to play for.

Yet more evidence that pre-season or mid-season friendlies should all be behind closed doors with no tv pictures. They are there for fitness and essentially to break up the boredom of a training camp. Couldn’t care a jot about the result or performance, I just want to know that we didn’t pick up any injuries. The proof of a good pre or mid season is how well you do when the real action restarts. 

34 minutes ago, compo said:

I don't think we could afford to pay a single player £60,000 a week and if we did it would be  reckless 

Absolutely, but I think the exact same of paying £38,000 a week to Goldson. That makes me sick. It is completely reckless for a club of our income to be blowing £2M a year on a centre half. I'd love the person who sanctioned that to be fired but I guess they are long gone. Surely with our income stream there should be nobody on more than £25Kpw? 

31 minutes ago, CammyF said:

 

 

Good news. Now lets move on to getting the rest of Beale's duds moved on, plus the always crocked lot that offer us no future as well, and make room and wages for some players that will contribute towards celebrating a treble in May.

9 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

It's mainly to do with the ease of security, due to turnstiles and facilities at the GW corner.  

 

Shouldn't be much of an issue with clubs like Livingston and St Johnstone but not so simple with the likes of Aberdeen and Hibs.

It shouldn’t be hard to section off a turnstile/toilet etc. if it costs a few quid so be it, it would be worth it to keep opposing fans from being seen and heard. Stick the UB up there too come to think of it!

I have said this for years, all away fans should be in the furthest corner of the stadium (i.e. the worst seats) harder to be on the tv or be heard. This is in line with what we find all over Europe when we travel to away games and I have never understood why we give visiting supporters a prime viewing location.

Dont normally take much for granted in these threads, all of the names that get mentioned for weeks and from all sorts of sources, then in come Silva with nobody mentioning it until it was done. I am delighted we have now gone back to not leaking all these things and just getting on with it and getting our work done.

Although I am trying not to get too excited by reading that Yilmaz and Lammers might be leaving, but that would be fantastic. Any rumours of offers for Goldson? A bear can live in hope you know. What a treble that would be for January!

21 hours ago, Bluedell said:

They've said that flags should not be raised while the ball is in play. It'll be interesting to see if they stick to that.

 

I'd have thought that a big issue would also be those remaining in CF whose view may be obstructed by the singing section who stand for the whole game. I'd be asking for a seat move if I had to stand for the whole game.

 

TBF, virtually all atmosphere in regular games is created by them. the stadium would be a morgue at times without them.

I wouldn't place a penny on them adhering to the flags down during play. Having been in about them on several occasions at away games and asked them to put the flags down during play, all you get back is abuse and ignored. Then they want everyone to join in on a sit down jump up moment and get annoyed when you wont reciprocate. 

But what atmosphere are they generating. All I hear is that bloody drum, and some infantile made up songs about players who have done nothing in the Rangers careers to date to merit such adulation. To me it doesnt add anything to the atmosphere, just some background noise. Atmosphere at the games is generated when the team is playing well and the crowd join in and sometimes when the referee is cheating and the crowd rise in defiance/annoyance. At very big games it can sometimes work the other way around. I would suggest it has very little to do with that corner. Trying to respect the other fans who want to watch the game instead of filming themselves would be a good start.

12 hours ago, Bill said:

Or to put it another way, 80% of those voting so far had their heads up their arses. 😆

haha I wouldnt go that far! I understand many want wee donner boy to come good (me included) but just focusing on a couple of decent forward runs and ignoring his actual role in the team (to defend against wingers) is stretching things too far. Add in his constant giving away the ball in his own half (usually 3 times in first 10 mins, but again improvements have shown it was 18 mins at the Piggery and only 2 on the first 10 v Killie!) and i am not the slightest bit convinced we have a player here worth keeping. Just my thoughts and I would still have him before Goldson!

Pleased for the disabled section and additional seating. Long overdue and a good start, not a finish,  to what is required.

Absolutely disgusted that they are bringing the nedsRus section into the Copland. The corner of the Broomie isnt even far enough away for that goddam awful drum and their silly wee songs. For their dreadful disruptive and agressive behaviour they are being rewarded with some of the best seats in the house. A total waste as most of the wee neds dont even watch the game, they watch themselves and film bits on their phones. I have been near enough to them on plenty of away games to make these observations. I dont see how waving a flag is encouraging the team to play while the ball is in play. All it is doing is obstructing the view of Rangers fans who actually want to watch the team play. Incredible capitulation by the club. Its almost as if they think the great atmosphere at the big Euro games was down to them and not the other 49,000 supporters who made the noise on those occasions. If it was all down to them then surely the atmosphere would be good every week? Newsflash, it isnt. It is just an irritable drumbeat throughout the game adding nothing to the atmosphere.

Thankfully im halfway up the Rear section in the Copland stand so apart from that feckin drum and being able to hear more of their monotone chants, I shouldnt be too affected by it, but I pity anyone in the Copland front who wants to see the game.

While I agree that going forward, small donner had his best match, but defensively he was terrible. I was watching him closely in the first half and 4 times he wasn’t one v one with the Killie winger and he failed every time with 3 good crosses coming into our box and the other the man went by him but was stopped by another defender. Nowhere near good enough, hope the rumours of some Turkish lira being bid to take him home are true.

Butland for me, the one crucial save at 0-0 when Killie were on top prevented what could have been points dropped as I couldn’t see us getting anything if they scored first.

A few players had half-decent performances in patches (the 3 goalscorers in particular) but Killie always make the beautiful game look ugly so I’m just happy we got the 3 points and don’t need to play them again for a while. 

Rangers 2 Kilmarnock 0

fgs Tav (is there anyone else looking like scoring these days?)

Bheasts 1 Bears 2

fgs Sima

So is this guy a proper goal scoring centre forward or a wide forward like Sima?

Whats his goals/assists numbers like?

If we are paying a loan fee plus full wages for a guy that cost 35M it’s going to be a very expensive loan.